Updated August 30, 2026
A Tool for Actually Keeping in Touch With Your LinkedIn Network
How busy people use wait who? to stop losing touch: see who they know, who connected recently, and who deserves a message this week.
The quiet debt of losing touch
There is a particular kind of guilt that has no good name. You met someone great at a conference in 2021. You connected, you meant to write, and now it is 2026 and writing feels strange because too much time has passed. So you do not write, and next year it will feel stranger still. Multiply that by a few hundred and you have your LinkedIn network: a warehouse of relationships you fully intended to keep.
Call it social debt. Every "we should catch up sometime" you never followed through on is a small unpaid balance. No single one matters. Together they are the reason your own network feels like a stranger's, and the reason the people you genuinely like keep hearing from you only when the algorithm happens to shove you into each other's feeds.
Here is the kind part: this is not a character flaw. Human memory holds maybe 150 people comfortably, and your network holds thousands. You did not stop caring about the mentor from your second job or the classmate who moved to Lisbon. You just cannot see them. Losing touch is not a decision anyone makes. It is the default state of a network bigger than a brain, and the fix is not trying harder to remember. It is having something that remembers for you.
What wait who? actually does for you
- Syncs your whole LinkedIn network, connections and followers, into one place, so for the first time you can actually see everyone you know instead of whoever the feed decided to show you today.
- Stores the real LinkedIn connection date for every person, so "has it really been five years?" gets an honest answer, and your reconnection message can say "since 2019, somehow" instead of guessing.
- Shows who connected with you this week, so new people get a hello while the handshake is still warm instead of joining the pile of names you meant to write to.
- Scans your last 10 posts for who reacted or commented: the people quietly waving at you from the sidelines, gathered into one list instead of scattered across notifications you cleared.
- Answers plain-language questions about your own people: "who do I know in Lisbon," "which old colleagues ended up in healthcare," "who did I connect with around the time of that Berlin job." Your memory, searchable.
- Drafts the reconnection message in your voice, which matters because the blank message box after three years of silence is exactly where good intentions go to die. You edit it, you send it. Nothing ever sends automatically, and it never posts as you.
A realistic week one
Day one: connect LinkedIn and let the first sync run while you make tea. When it finishes, your network is laid out across 15 industries, with connection dates attached. Expect a strange half hour of scrolling and muttering "wait, who?"... followed by "oh no, I forgot about her," which is the entire product in one sentence. Most people find a dozen relationships they are actively sad about having dropped.
Day two: look at who reacted to your recent posts. These are the easiest hellos you will ever write, because the other person moved first: they liked something, they commented, they are already half in the conversation. Send two. No agenda, no favor to ask, just "I saw your name pop up and realized how long it has been."
Day three through five: one reconnection a day. Pick someone from the list, let wait who? draft the opener, rewrite it until it sounds like you on a good day, send it. Three minutes, most of which is the rewriting, which is the part that should take time. By Friday you have paid down five debts that had been quietly compounding for years.
Ongoing: the sync refreshes weekly, the "connected with you this week" list keeps catching new people before they fade, and when your inbox gets away from you, an inbox briefing catches you up on who is waiting for a reply. Keeping in touch stops being a resolution and becomes a small habit with a very short to-do list.
How it compares to the usual fixes
| Approach | Cost | What it is good at | Where it falls down |
|---|---|---|---|
| A spreadsheet of birthdays and reminders | Free plus your time | Total control, any detail you care to record | You are the sync engine; the first busy month, it quietly dies |
| A personal CRM app | Usually a monthly fee | Logging conversations across every channel | Starts empty; most people give up during the data entry |
| Scrolling the feed | Free plus your evenings | Ambient awareness of whoever posts loudly | The algorithm shows you the noisiest people, not the ones you miss |
| wait who? | 27 euros/month, 7 days free | Starts full: your whole network, real dates, recent engagement, synced weekly | Only knows LinkedIn, by design |
What this costs, in plain words
One plan, 27 euros a month, everything included, with a 7-day free trial. Card upfront, nothing charged if you cancel. The plan includes 150 AI credits a month: a question about your network costs 3 credits, a drafted message 1, a post draft 2, an inbox briefing 2. A weekly rhythm of a few questions, a handful of drafted hellos, and a briefing when the inbox piles up fits comfortably inside the included credits. If you ever want more, top-up packs are 5 euros for 100 credits, 12 for 300, or 30 for 1000, and they never expire, like stamps in a drawer.
For the price of one nice lunch a month, the people you actually like stop silently drifting out of your life. That is the whole trade.
Questions people ask
Is wait who? a personal CRM?
Not really. A personal CRM starts empty and waits for you to type your life into it, which is why most of them end up abandoned by February. wait who? starts full: it syncs your existing LinkedIn network, connections and followers, with real connection dates and recent post engagement already in place. There is nothing to enter on day one, which turns out to be the whole difference.
Will it message people for me automatically?
No. It drafts messages in your voice, and you edit and send every single one yourself. Nothing goes out without you, and it never posts on your behalf. A hello that a machine sent for you is not keeping in touch, and we know it.
I barely post on LinkedIn. Does it still work?
Yes. Post engagement is one signal among several: it scans your last 10 posts for who reacted or commented, and if there are few posts there is simply less of that signal. Everything else still works: your full network in one place, real connection dates, the weekly list of who connected with you, the industry map, and plain-language questions about who you know.
Can it track friends who are not on LinkedIn?
No. wait who? works only on your own LinkedIn network, by design. The friend who lives entirely in WhatsApp, or the one who deleted their account, is invisible to it. For everyone you are connected with on LinkedIn, which for most working people is the bulk of their professional relationships, it sees the whole picture.
Is it safe to connect my account?
wait who? reads your network and your post engagement to build the picture, and it writes nothing on its own. Syncing runs weekly on a staggered schedule and stays within LinkedIn's own limits. You can disconnect whenever you like.
What does it cost?
One plan at 27 euros a month with a 7-day free trial, card upfront, and nothing charged if you cancel. It includes 150 AI credits a month: a question about your network costs 3 credits, a drafted message 1, a post draft 2, and an inbox briefing 2. If you ever need more, top-up packs start at 5 euros for 100 credits and never expire.
Say hello to someone this week
7 days free, card upfront, nothing charged if you cancel. Connect LinkedIn, let the first sync run, and see who has been waiting on page 34 of your connections all along.
Start your free week →